Focus on the Disability Price Tag

WhatThe
WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,468 Championing
edited December 2024 in Actions and opportunities

Focus on the Disability Price Tag
  • Our new Disability Price Tag report shows disabled households now need, on average, an £1,010 extra each month, just to have the same standard of living as non-disabled households.

Scope, will you please qualify this statement with some disabled households?

A severely disabled person may well need this extra amount but most of us don't. You're talking about an extra £1,010. This could easily reinforce negative attitudes towards anyone on benefits!

In an ideal world we would all thrive and not just survive but I think this is asking for too much.

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  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,450 Championing

    i would disagree there that I don't think we are asking to much.

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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,468 Championing

    You think we need and should get £500 a week because we are disabled?

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  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,450 Championing

    yes

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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,468 Championing
    edited December 2024

    Living expenses (not rent) ?

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  • Morgan_Alumni
    Morgan_Alumni Posts: 781

    Hello @WhatThe, I'm not an expert and can't talk for the whole Price Tag report but I think it is qualified by the word 'average'. Some households will need considerably more and some households may need less.

    To bring a disabled household's standard of living to the same standard as a non-disabled household, research shows that disabled households would require on average an additional £1010 each month.

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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,468 Championing
    edited December 2024

    The mean average of me and a millionaire...? How helpful is that in the current disability benefits affordability debate in the media?

    Needing and wanting are not the same thing.

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  • whistles
    whistles Community Member Posts: 2,051 Championing

    What is a non disabled persons standard of living?

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